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Shoes, Jewels, and Monets: The Immense Ill-Gotten Wealth of Imelda Marcos
During their two-decade conjugal dictatorship, as it came to be known, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos pillaged up to $10 billion from Philippine coffers to finance their extravagant lifestyle. Nearly 20 years after their downfall, and in spite of an extensive...
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Thu, Jan 16 2014 6:50 AM
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FP Passport
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Corruption
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Human Rights
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Politics
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Southeast Asia
Morning Brief: Senate Report Calls Benghazi Attack Avoidable
Senate Report Calls Benghazi Attack Avoidable Top news: A bipartisan report released Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee called the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya "likely preventable." The assault left four Americans...
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Thu, Jan 16 2014 5:40 AM
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FP Passport
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Russian Human Rights Report Casts Europe as Land of *** and Gay Propaganda
According to an annual report on human rights in the European Union issued by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Europe is a dark, dark place, filled with *** and xenophobes. The massive, 153-page "unofficial translation" of the report...
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Wed, Jan 15 2014 3:18 PM
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FP Passport
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Europe
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Russia
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Human Rights
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Germany
In Bangkok, Sowing Chaos to Provoke a Coup
Don't be fooled by the tens of thousands of protesters in the streets. Massive demonstrations that have blossomed in the streets of Thailand this week have very little to do with democracy. Instead, those protesters hope to oust the current government...
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Wed, Jan 15 2014 12:29 PM
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FP Passport
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East Asia
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Politics
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Democracy
Kazakhstan Wants to Attract Big Pharma to Its 'Cannabis Klondike'
Despite a heavy-handed campaign against drug trafficking and related crime in the country, one Kazakh lawmaker thinks it's time to cash in on some 140,000 stubborn hectares of wild cannabis that can be found around Kazakhstan. Darigha Nazarbaeva,...
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Wed, Jan 15 2014 12:03 PM
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FP Passport
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Drugs & Crime
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Central Asia
Why No One Will Ever Be Blamed for Benghazi
A Senate committee released on Wednesday its long-awaited findings on the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya. Its findings are a case study in how no one and everyone in the State Department...
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Wed, Jan 15 2014 9:26 AM
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FP Passport
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Middle East
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Borders
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North Africa
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Libya
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How Did a German Man End Up Dead in a U.S. Drone Strike?
On Feb. 16, 2012 a missile launched from an American drone struck a pickup truck outside the city of Mir Ali in Pakistan's rugged tribal region. As many as 15 men died in the attack, which many reports claimed killed mostly "Uzbek Islamists."...
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Wed, Jan 15 2014 7:00 AM
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Terrorism
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Europe
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Pakistan
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Germany
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Morning Brief: NSA Technology Can Breach Computers Isolated From Web
NSA Technology Can Breach Computers Isolated From Web Top news: The U.S. National Security Agency has placed software on some 100,000 computers around the world that allow the agency to carry out surveillance and use those machines for cyber attacks,...
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Wed, Jan 15 2014 6:02 AM
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FP Passport
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Morning Brief
Saudi Arabia: Now Slightly Less Terrible for Women
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Here's what passes for progress for the Saudi Arabian women's rights movement: The country's passport office suspended a program that automatically notified via text...
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Tue, Jan 14 2014 2:58 PM
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FP Passport
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Human Rights
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Freedom
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Middle East
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Saudi Arabia
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Hollande Tries to Kickstart His Presidency Like the Scooter He Rides to His Trysts
He's the most unpopular French president in modern memory. He's struggled to jumpstart his country's sluggish economy. And on Tuesday French President Francois Hollande faced an assembled 500 journalists to present his plan for how to bring...
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Tue, Jan 14 2014 2:14 PM
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Europe
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France
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Politics
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Economics
Chechen President Hands Out $1,000 to Children Named Mohammed
If you're broke, Chechen, and happened to give birth on Monday, you're in luck. Well, at least as long as you named your newborn baby after Mohammed (or one of his close associates). Monday was the Prophet Mohammed's birthday in the Sunni...
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Tue, Jan 14 2014 9:10 AM
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Islam
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Central Asia
Bully the Church, Topple Lenin, and Three Other Tactics on the Kiev Barricades
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Having concluded their Christmas and New Year's celebrations, anti-government protesters in Ukraine have returned to Kiev's Independence Square. And though their numbers...
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Tue, Jan 14 2014 8:53 AM
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Russia
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Human Rights
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Eastern Europe
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Religion
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International Organizations
Secret Cameramen Reveal North Korea's Tiny Rebellions
When director James Jones set out to make a film about life inside North Korea, he decided early on that it would be pointless to go there himself. "I knew if we went to North Korea we'd get what you've seen 100 times: the official tour,...
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Tue, Jan 14 2014 5:14 AM
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FP Passport
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North Korea
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Human Rights
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East Asia
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Media
Morning Brief: Voting Begins in Egypt for New Constitution
Voting Begins in Egypt for New Constitution Top News: Two days of voting for the country's new constitution began today in Egypt. The referendum is the first vote held since the Egyptian military ousted President Mohammad Morsi amid widespread protests...
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Tue, Jan 14 2014 4:48 AM
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FP Passport
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Morning Brief
WikiLeaked: 5 Things to Know About the Islamist Empire Trying to Take Down Erdogan
If the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan falls, a large portion of the blame -- or credit, depending on your perspective -- will lie with a little-known Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen and his shadowy, globe-spanning empire...
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Mon, Jan 13 2014 3:15 PM
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FP Passport
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Politics
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Middle East
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Turkey
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WikiLeaks
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